In case it might be helpful to anyone else now or in the future, here's a solution to a problem: On my Debian 7/Wheezy system, one user could play a Vimeo piece with sound, but another user got silence for the same piece. The second user also had silence for some Google logos that allegedly had sound for other people. The key difference was the use of the 'plug' feature in the users' .asoundrc files. The following diff/patch got sound working for the second user. My guess is the Vimeo player produces a specific sample rate (or perhaps other format attribute) and adding the 'plug' feature causes ALSA to do the necessary conversion. --- ../../.asoundrc.~1~ 2011-08-19 21:23:33.894407686 -0700 +++ ../../.asoundrc 2016-01-03 15:15:12.271767959 -0800 @@ -1,6 +1,9 @@ pcm.Intel { type hw; card Intel; } ctl.Intel { type hw; card Intel; } pcm.NVidia { type hw; card NVidia; } ctl.NVidia { type hw; card NVidia; } -pcm.!default pcm.Intel +pcm.!default { + type plug + slave.pcm "Intel" +} ctl.!default ctl.Intel HTH Robert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user